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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Why Isn't It Treason?

Yemini terrorists released from Gitmo

By Alan
Caruba

“Treason
against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or
in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” – Article Three,
Section Three, U.S. Constitution.

Given the
fact that one of the suspects, Said Kouachi, in the Paris killings had traveled
to Yemen in 2011 and that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed
responsibility for the killings, does it strike anyone as strange that Obama set free five Yemeni detainees out of Guantanomo Bay? Four were sent to Oman, a
nation that neighbors Yemen. A fifth was transferred to Estonia. It was the
first time either nation had accepted Gitmo prisoners for resettlement.

Does
anyone think that the five Afghan Taliban leaders Obama set free last year are
still in Qatar? Among the things Obama will be remembered for will be his
promise to close Gitmo and these releases of U.S. enemies.

Since when
is freeing Islamic terrorists to return to the battlefield not giving aid and
comfort to the enemy? Well, it is not if you are the President of the United
States because, believe it or not, what he did was entirely within his legal
authority.

Most
dramatic was Obama’s decision not to join the forty other world leaders in
Paris to demonstrate a common opposition to Islamic terrorism. Indeed, he has
denied the use of any reference to Islamic terrorism by government
spokespersons or in government documents. To this day, the Fort Hood killings
are still referred to as “workplace violence” despite the fact that the
perpetrator was shouting “Allah akbar” as he killed his victims.

How stupid
is it to continue to ignore the evidence that we have a President who is more
inclined to side with our Islamic enemies than with Americans?

He
withdrew our troops from Iraq, setting up the creation of the Islamic State
(ISIS) to fill the vacuum that was created. He has officially declared an end
to the American role in fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Yes, he has
authorized drone killing of al Qaeda leaders and bombing of the ISIS troops,
but neither has demonstrated any significant reduction in terrorism.

Then there
is Obama’s “war on coal” which has resulted in a torrent of Environmental
Protection Agency regulations and actions that between 2012 and 2020 will bring
about the loss of 60 gigawatts of electricity generated by coal-fired plants
around the nation. Replacing that lost production is not going to occur
overnight. At this point, according to the Associated Press, more than 32
mostly coal-fired plants have closed or are in the process. “Another 36 plants
could be forced to shut down as the result of new EPA rules regulating air
pollution.”

In a
response to the State of the Union speech, Mike Duncan, president of the
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, said, “President Obama failed to
offer answers about the calamitous consequences of his environmental
regulations. Rather than seek a commonsense energy plan for America, President
Obama bypassed Congress and is forging ahead with his climate crusade at the
expense of the nation’s economic security.”

If a
foreign nation had invaded the United States and began closing down the plants
on which vast areas of the nation depend for electricity, wouldn’t we consider
that an act of war?What is the
difference if it results from the actions of the U.S. President? Moreover,
these closures are totally unnecessary because they are based on false
“science” regarding so-called greenhouse gas emissions. Is the planet warming?
No. It has been cooling for 19 years.

I am not a
lawyer or authority on the Constitution, but it is hard not to consider that
Obama’s long record of lying to Americans doesn’t qualify him, if not for treason
as it is defined, at least for fraud. The way ObamaCare was sold to the public
is a classic example and, as it turns out, Jonathan Gruber, one of its
architects and advisors to Obama, made it quite clear that deception was the
key to its passage, referring to voters as “stupid.”

The 2014
elections demonstrated that Obama’s policies were firmly rejected by the voters
as power in both the Senate and House was turned over to the Republican Party,
but he is giving no evidence of moderating the arrogance that has distinguished
his term in office to date.

On Tuesday,
January 20, the nation was two years from the day in 2017 that Obama’s second
and final term ends and a new President takes power. We need to make sure we
elect a patriotic, God-fearing man to begin the process of reversing and ending
the damage Obama has done thus far.

The war on coal is based on the mistaken perception that CO2 change has a significant effect on climate.

It is disturbing that so many PhDs missed the application of the rudiments of calculus that prove that CO2 has no significant effect on climate change.

Atmospheric CO2 is identified as a climate change forcing with units of Joules/sec/m^2 by the ‘consensus’ and the IPCC. Energy, in units Joules/m^2 divided by the effective thermal capacitance equals average global temperature (AGT) change. Thus the time-integral of the atmospheric CO2 level times a scale factor equals the AGT change.

For 8000+ years the temperature trend has been flat while the CO2 level has been in the range 260-280 ppmv. This mandates that the scale factor be zero.

Since 2001 the temperature trend has been flat while the CO2 level has been in the range 380-400 ppmv. This also mandates that the scale factor be zero.

Together these observations lead to the expectation that ‘climate sensitivity’ to a doubling of CO2 level will also be zero.

The two factors that do explain the temperature rise since the depths of the Little Ice Age and the flat trend since 2001(95% correlation since before 1900) are identified at http://agwunveiled.blogspot.com. This analysis also demonstrates that CO2 change has had no significant effect on climate change since before 1900.

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.